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Facts at a Glance

Clinical Care

The only National Cancer Institute center serving California’s Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of 6 million people

Cares for more than 10,000 adults and children each year

More than 400 adult and pediatric cancer clinical trials under way

Affiliate cancer centers through the Cancer Care Network in Yuba City, Truckee and Merced, Ridgecrest and South Lake Tahoe offering patients state-of-the-art cancer care close to home

Highly trained oncology-certified nurses

The only National Marrow Donor Program Transplant Center in the region

Provides a full range of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and hospice/palliative care programs for children and adults

Research

$63 million in National Institutes of Health/CHI funding with nearly 300 scientists at work on nearly 300 projects, distributed among 42 UC Davis departments and eight schools, including the School of Veterinary Medicine

The first major cancer center to forge a formal research partnership with a national laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Collaboration with JAX-West Laboratories to develop better research models for new therapies

SCOPE: a city-wide phase I clinical research program offering novel therapies to patients throughout the region

Leaders in translational research, with achievements in:

Combinatorial chemistry and novel nanotherapeutics for drug delivery and imaging

Anti-androgen and other novel therapeutic approaches for advanced prostate cancer

Basic science in DNA damage and repair and signal transduction

Glycomics in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and imaging

Biomedical technologies including EXPLORER, the world’s first total-body PET scanner